Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Automating Android screen recording and device framing

Paul Kinlan

In a previous post, I discussed screen recording from Android. This post details how I automated the process of adding a device frame to those recordings, making them look more professional. Previously, this was a tedious manual process involving Screenflow, but now I've automated it using ffmpeg. The ffmpeg command scales the screen recording and overlays it onto a background image of a device frame. The code, available on GitHub, handles the entire process, including setting up the Android device for recording, pulling the recording, and applying the frame. While the current solution works well, I'm open to suggestions for improvement from ffmpeg experts.

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Bootstraping your own mobile web testing lab for Android Part 1

Paul Kinlan

In this blog post, I share a simple shell script to help you create your own mobile web testing lab for Android. The script uses adb to connect to attached Android devices, sets up port forwarding for Chrome DevTools, and opens the browser on each device. It's a starting point towards my goal of using a Raspberry PI to host adb and all connected devices, simplifying multi-device testing.

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